Tour 4 2011 for Tempest Tours began in OKC on Saturday, the 28th. The guides for this tour were Chad Cowan and Danny Gonzales. We went up to Ponca City and waited at the local lake, and a storm went up to our southwest, near Kingfisher, OK. It was briefly severe, and as we got close, it died a sudden and horrible death. We stayed in Wichita for the night.
On Sunday, May 29, we targeted SE Nebraska, as instability and shear were quite high again. We meandered a bit around Beatrice during the afternoon, and finally a storm went up just west of Lincoln at 7 p.m. We were just east of it fairly quickly, and our hopes were somewhat high. It looked like a nicely sculpted LP supercell, and then it quickly went POOF and was a goner. The cap wins again.
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